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Use of the defensive shift against lefthanded batters 3 infielders positioned on the right side, sometimes 1 of them in short right field has surged in Major League Baseball in recent years.
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Unrecognized no-hitter vs. Cubs in 19th Century By JohnW53 on May 26, 2021, 4:56am CDT +
During each game thread, when the Cubs make their first hit, moderator The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street sends a tweet, copied to the thread, extolling the latest addition to the The Streak the number of games since the Cubs last were no-hit. The Streak is comfortably past 800 games, but that is barely 10 percent of the Major League-record
7,920 games that the Cubs went without being held hitless until Cole Hamels of the Phillies did it at Wrigley Field on July 25, 2015.
That was just 46 days short of the
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May 7
1917 Babe Ruth of the Red Sox allowed two hits as he outdueled Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators 1-0. Ruth knocked in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.
1922 Jesse Barnes of the New York Giants pitched the only no-hitter of the year, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0.
1925 Pittsburgh shortstop Glenn Wright made an unassisted triple play in the ninth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals when he caught Jim Bottomley’s line drive, stepped on second to double Jimmy Cooney, and tagged Rogers Hornsby coming from first. The Cardinals, trailing 9-4, scored six runs in the eighth inning to win 10-9 at Forbes Field.
May 2, 2021
Myles Straw grew up a big Tampa Bay Rays fan and has been to hundreds of games at Tropicana Field. Much for that reason, he’s more than a little familiar with Brandon Guyer. Which isn’t to say that Straw emulates the recently-retired outfielder. Guyer reached base via HBP a bruise-worthy 85 times from 2014-2018, and he did so despite never getting as many as 400 plate appearances in a single season. The bulk of his plunkings came in a Rays uniform.
When I talked to Straw this past Wednesday, he had played in 120 big-league games, all with the Houston Astros. He had never been hit by a pitch.